The site covers the two adjacent karstic basins draining into Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet.

Subsidence is increased in the adjacent basin as the load migrates further into the foreland, causing subsidence.

Each drainage basin is separated topographically from adjacent basins by a geographical barrier such as a ridge, hill or mountain.

The stratigraphy is similar to that in adjacent basins such as the Green River Basin to the west and the Denver Basin to the east.

Stream capture occurs when an upstream portion of one river drainage is diverted to the downstream portion of an adjacent basin.

From the north; the Northern end of the Millennium Ribble Link is a holding basin adjacent and connected to the Lancaster Canal.

Mountain ranges formed at the points of initial continental collision provide the sediment which accumulates in adjacent remnant-ocean basins (Fig. 3.16(B)).

Historically, the Mohawk watershed has lacked a watershed management plan typical in many adjacent basins.

However, these wells failed to penetrate the critical Late Jurassic section which had been so successful in the discovery of oil-rich source rock for adjacent basins.